Extravagance Quotes
Extravagance Quote of the day
I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear.
Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
All the average human being asks is something he can call a home; a family that is fed and warm; and now and then a little happiness; once in a long while an extravagance.
No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.
In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance.
We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can afford more.
They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.
He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.
An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation.
The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.
The extravagance of any corporate office is directly proportional to management's reluctance to reward the shareholders.
Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.
Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.
He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.
Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.
Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.
Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.
A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.
Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.
Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.
Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.
We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.
I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.
That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.
We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.
Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?
Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.
